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mathematician and astronomer; Lavoisier, father of modern 

 chemistry; Magellan, first to circumnavigate the world; Mal- 

 pighi, father of comparative physiology; Mendel, formulator 

 of laws of heredity; Morgagni father of modern pathology; 

 Miiller, founder of modern physiology; O Dwyer, inventor of 

 intubation; Paracelsus, reformer of therapeutics; Pasteur, 

 founder of physio-chemistry; Schwann, originator of the cell 

 theory; Senf elder, inventor of lithography; Vernier, a name 

 familiar in mathematics; Vesalius, who reorganized the study 

 of anatomy; Vico, famous as an astronomer; Volta, whose name 

 expresses an electrical unit. 3 



To come now to our subject, after this digres 

 sion. The Church, in the first place, holds the 

 doctrine of the direct creation of the soul of man. 

 No one can claim, in the name of science, that 

 any facts have ever been advanced to prove that 

 the intellectual soul of man was evolved from 

 the brute. Even were we to admit the existence 

 of that &quot;link&quot; between brute and man, which has 

 quite rightly been called &quot;missing,&quot; there would 

 be no evidence to show that after a certain stage 

 of evolution had been reached God did not 

 breathe into this brute, evolved from the primal 

 matter He had created and gifted with the life 

 He alone could have bestowed, an immortal soul. 

 Such might certainly have been the course of 

 nature, had God so willed it. 



Aside from all mention of Scripture and Reve- 



2 The names of all these world-famous scientists are to be 

 found in the &quot;Catholic Encyclopedia,&quot; with a scientific exposition 

 of their work. The &quot;Catholic Encyclopedia&quot; itself may be men 

 tioned as perhaps the most convincing argument of the high 

 grade of scholarship and scientific attainment within the Church. 



